+1 for the title.
see title.
Scientists tail whales, hails their tales of record 14,000-mile migration
The habits and movements of three highly evolved creatures have been tracked by scientists using sophisticated technology for more than five months, The Register can reveal. Bio-boffins collected copious amounts of data on the three Western Pacific Grey Whales — Vavara, Agent and Flex — who were tracked from Russia via Alaska …
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Thursday 16th April 2015 14:50 GMT Khaptain
No shit sherlock
Large marine mammal in it's own back yard travels from one end of the yard to the other by going about it's normal business.
Blinks eyes as he realised just how unamazing this "record" really is...
I honestly believed that the article would have provided a little more than "Whale does it's business"
What's next : Giraffe filmed whilst eating leaves on a tall tree...
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Thursday 16th April 2015 17:40 GMT Crazy Operations Guy
Re: I'm more intrigued to know how you attach a tracker to something that big.
Yeah, it's a small dart-like bit that is fired from a harpoon gun that embeds itself into the whale's blubbery flesh. Goes in relatively painless, somewhere between getting a shot and having a piercing put in (Well that's what the evidence suggests, at least. But not much research has been done).
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Thursday 16th April 2015 15:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
Western Grays were pretty much wiped out.
They used to winter down around Southern China, and then move north towards Alaska and Russia in the summer. I'm fairly sure that whales that winter in Mexico don't qualify as western pacific Grays, at least in the classical sense.
(It's too early in the morning for me to string together some kind of faux-witty "50 Shades of Grey" reference)
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Thursday 16th April 2015 23:12 GMT John Brown (no body)
Re: Western Grays were pretty much wiped out.
"what should a whale do/prove in order to qualify as a "western pacific Gray".
Produce at least three different forms of ID including at least one utility bill with it's name and address on it and photo ID. Alternatively, it can sign in via Facebook.
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Friday 17th April 2015 04:53 GMT Robert Helpmann??
Call the OSU!
It certainly feels as if this surveillance study, one of the most intrusive to date, raises more questions than it answers - not least in the area of whale surveillance data ethics.
Would it be ethical if the researchers promised to delete the gathered data after a reasonable period of time and responded promptly and truthfully to questions posed by elected officials? Besides, this data is invaluable in preventing orca attacks. It's to keep the Western Pacific Grey Whale population safe! Won't someone think of the calves?
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Friday 17th April 2015 12:32 GMT Herbert Fruchtl
They are doing it all wrong
You don't just tag and track whales. If you want to study whales properly, you kill them on sight, cut them up, and sell them as food. Just ask the nation with the greatest interest in whale research.
Alternatively, blast them with sonar until they beach themselves, and then pretend you weren't even in the area.
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Wednesday 22nd April 2015 12:10 GMT Andrew Meredith
"please alert UKIP"
Really ??!
This is just getting very very boring. You are supposed to be a geek news sheet, not political satirists .. not that the above counts for much in the way of comedy or satire.
UKIP have explained till they're blue in the face that they do not like *uncontrolled*immigration*. They have no problem with immigrants themselves (Farage married one), they are just following the rules and doing what they are allowed to do.
If someone blew up a damn upstream and flooded several cities. Would you blame the water, the bloody great hole in the damn or the muppet that blew it up in the first place. The water is just doing its "seek the lowest point" thing. The hole is the inevitable result of the muppet with the TNT. The real culprit is the muppet.
Now get back under your "I'm a left winger and every thought I have is the gospel truth" rock and stay there.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
